Best Improbably Poems
The Sun Will Shine On Your Face
...Suspended improbably on shoulders
Hunched by years of glacial attrition
And threaded through a forest of boulders:
The path that holds the key to my mission
I speak allegorically, because
This t......
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Categories:
improbably, friendship, hope, life, love
Form:
Sonnet
Her Wonderful Mother Nature
...HER WONDERFUL MOTHER NATURE
Once upon her entering and exiting
Her comings and goings
Groceries, gym or mall
Mother Nature made the mirrors love her
All-knowing reflection,
No adjustmen......
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Categories:
improbably, romance,
Form:
Romanticism
Permanent Sanctuary School
...I came to AllSouls
looking for permanent sanctuary.
Sanctuary,
not only from a Rumpian absence of
civility
and non-violent trust
and integrity
and compassion,
but also pro-actively for an ......
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Categories:
improbably, community, fear, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Riding Sixties Shotgun
...I was in the shotgun seat
in 1960 Lansing Michigan
headed straight as a harddrive
through ghettoizing "Negra Section"
hunting down our commercial whitebread
heavenly ThriftyAcres
Wanna be a ......
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Categories:
improbably, beauty, community, culture, extended
Form:
Political Verse
Choosing Happiness
...Tonight I heard a terminally cancered
yet not cancelled
singer songwriter say
"I can't wait for life to not be hard
before choosing to be happy."
She spoke well from her own experience
and I......
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Categories:
improbably, fear, happiness, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Suburban Nocturne
...A vertical sliver pries into the doorway, a beam from the watchful eye in the hall
While amber stars in cages, captives in lampposts, shout prophecies beneath the moon
Obscured by trees
Their crie......
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Categories:
improbably, hope, introspection, life, nature
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Pool Sharks
...POEMS ABOUT POOL SHARKS
Shark
by Michael R. Burch
They are all unknowable,
these rough pale men—
haunting dim pool rooms like shadows,
propped up on bar stools like scarecrows,
nodding and......
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Categories:
improbably, games, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Stillbirth of a Sonnet
...There have been moments in my life enjoyed
more for the forest than the fallen leaves.
White drops of ink that improbably bleed
right off their journal to rupture the void
no one had known existe......
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Categories:
improbably, daughter, divorce, father daughter,
Form:
Sonnet
Climbing Trees
...We went to climb trees
in the jungle gyms of green apple orchards,
bare legs dangled
toes dipped into shady pools of sky.
Secret girlfriends climbed barefooted
onto impossibly roomy branches,
......
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Categories:
improbably, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Perfect Imperfect
...Framed blemish.
Heavy as a tumor.
Solid as surrender.
Dig into epidermis.
Uproot the moment.
Unclean kernel.
Hard, cold reflection.
Show me pretty.
Clogged pores.
Yellow teeth.
Rheumy eye......
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Categories:
improbably, beautiful, beauty, body, hurt,
Form:
Free verse
Still I Am
...I hate me
More than any of you could
Still i am
The man who stood
Gravity couldn't pull me down
Looking through space
From the outside in
Taking each pain with a widening grin
Improbably Prob......
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Categories:
improbably, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Haiku -- Streams
...Streams: It's so improbably wonderful that
the trickle of a lazy stream can eventually
join the chorus of a powerful ocean.
ocean's lions roar
above mighty sea birds soar
stream......
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Categories:
improbably, bird, ocean, power, sound,
Form:
Haiku
Fair Game
...POEMS ABOUT POOL SHARKS
Fair Game
by Michael R. Burch
At the Tennessee State Fair,
the largest stuffed animals hang tilt-a-whirl over the pool tables
with mocking button eyes,
knowing the p......
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Categories:
improbably, addiction, confidence, eulogy, fun,
Form:
Free verse
A Conflict in Nature
...Up here, where the lone trees grow, the air is clear and the time is now.
Up here, where the lone trees grow, my emotions alternate between what I see and what I know.
The only easy way into th......
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Categories:
improbably, world war ii,
Form:
Free verse